Tracks Funplex
- Ultraviolet
- Dancing Now
- Hot Corner
- Too Much To Think About
- Deviant Ingredient
- Love In The Year 3000
- Keep This Party Going
- Pump
- Funplex
- Juliet Of The Spirits
- Eyes Wide Open
Release date: 2008-04-14
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.76
Review Funplex / B-52's:16 years between albums is a gap virtually unprecedented in modern music, so no surprises that the first question you want to know about Funplex is: how does it sound? Going on the opening track "Pump", you'd be forgiven for thinking not at all: there's Fred Schneider's delirious, delightfully unselfconscious shout, there's Kate and Cindy whooping like dropout cheerleaders, there's the enjoyably garish mish-mash of early rock'n'roll, B-movie kitsch and surfboard funk that's been the group's stock in trade since their emergence in the new-wave boom of the mid-'70s. Deeper into Funplex, though, there's evidence of a new electronic edge, which can be owed in part to the input of producer Steve Osbourne, who's previously worked with New Order and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. At times, the presence of dance beats, echoing effects, and pulsing synthesiser make Funplex feel a little clinically handled, like a B-52s remix. But it's worth admission just for the glorious title track, a chaotic cops'n'hippies dust-up at the mall, and the mighty "Ultraviolet". "Keep doing what we're doing cos we're doing it right!" shouts Fred. "Four miles to a breakdown!" shout Kate and Cindy. 16 years on, the party's still going. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks The Pretender
- Here come those tears again
- Pretender
- Sleep's dark and silent gate
- Fuse
- Daddy's time
- Only child
- Your bright baby blues
- Linda Paloma
Release date: 2004-06-14
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.52
Review The Pretender / Jackson Browne:
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Tracks Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House [2001]
- Blixa Bargeld
- Fabien Raymond
- Martyn Casey
- Mick Harvey
- Warren Ellis
- Nick Cave
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: Yoan Belton
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.48
Review Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House [2001] / Mute Films:
Tracks Tea For The Tillerman
- Hard Headed Woman
- Miles From Nowhere
- Tea For The Tillerman
- Longer Boats
- On The Road To Find Out
- Hard Headed Woman
- Sad Lisa
- Where Do The Children Play?
- Wild World
- Into White
- Longer Boats
- Miles From Nowhere
- Wild World
- Father And Son
- Wild World - Yusuf
- But I Might Die Tonight
- Into White
- On The Road To Find Out
- Where Do The Children Play?
- Tea For The Tillerman - Live At The BBC
- Father And Son - Yusuf
- Sad Lisa
Release date: 2008-11-17
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.99
Review Tea For The Tillerman / Cat Stevens:
Tracks Hard Rain
- Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
- Oh Sister
- You're A Big Girl Now
- Maggie's Farm
- I Threw It All Away
- Lay Lady Lay
- One Too Many Mornings
- Idiot Wind
- Shelter From The Storm
Release date: 2001-02-12
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.80
Review Hard Rain / Bob Dylan:
Tracks Visionary Position
- I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight
- Moon on the Water
- Dreaming
- Reborn
- Firefly
- Endgame (Speed of Life)
- Apocalypstick
- Elektra City
Release date: 2008-04-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99
Review Visionary Position / Panic Room:
Tracks Hook Me Up
- In Another Life
- Untouched
- I Don't Wanna Wait
- Someone Wake Me Up
- Hook Me Up
- This Is How It Feels
- Goodbye to You
- All I Have
- I Can't Stay Away
- Popular
- Take Me on the Floor
- This Love
- Revenge Is Sweeter (Than You Ever Were)
Release date: 2008-08-26
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.77
Review Hook Me Up / The Veronicas:
Tracks Warning
- Warning
- Blood, Sex And Booze
- 86
- Hold On
- Minority
- Deadbeat
- Jackass
- Macy's Day Parade
- Castaway
- Church On Sunday
- Waiting
- Fashion Victim
- Misery
Release date: 2000-10-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.87
Review Warning / Green Day:After two years off following the release of the genre-expanding Nimrod, the usually insouciant trio Green Day are open to some weighty self-analysis. Gone are the raging rants, cartoonish antics, and anthropological musings about the punk scene, replaced by an introspection that brings to mind Michael Stipe and Bono. Like the U2 frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong still hasn't found what he's looking for, but he knows where he's been and is eager to move past the days when Green Day were considered the clown princes of rock. Witness "Jackass", which cautions, "Everybody loves a joke, but no one likes a fool". Proving that they aren't fools, Green Day take a substantial step forward, exploring new rhythms, sonics and subjects. While many of the tracks are still cheeky and infectious, the deceptively simple melodies belie a quest for meaning, faith and fulfilment. There's a tentative optimism here that's tempered by irony and flashes of self-loathing. Still, Warning transcends the darkness that clouded 1995's Insomniac. No longer so under the sway of the Buzzcocks and the Ramones, this time Armstrong and company dip into the early rock canon-the Beatles and Bob Dylan, among them. As a result, their first self-produced album is more "Nowhere Man" than "Blitzkrieg Bop". [+]-Jaan Uhelszki.
Tracks Almost Unplugged
- Hero
- Memories
- Forever Travelling
- Superstitious
- Devil Sings the Blues
- Suicide
- Yesterdays News
- Wish You Were Here
- Love to Love
- Rock the Night
- Dreamer
- Final Countdown
- Got to Have Faith
- Since I've Been Lovin' You
Release date: 2008-11-24
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.98
Review Almost Unplugged / Europe:
Tracks The Very Best of Meat Loaf
- You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- Nocturnal Pleasure
- Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
- Heaven Can Wait
- Bat Out Of Hell
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
- Home By Now/No Matter What
- Is Nothing Sacred
- I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth)
- I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
- Not A Dry Eye In The House
- Modern Girl
- Rock 'n' Roll Dreams Come Through
- Dead Ringer For Love
- Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than TheyAre
- Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
- Paradise By The Dashboard Light
- Midnight At The Lost And Found
Release date: 1998-11-02
RRP: £17.99
Price: £22.94
Review The Very Best of Meat Loaf / Meat Loaf:
Tracks Bizarro: Remastered
- What Have I Said Now
- Don't Talk Just Kiss
- Granadaland
- Gone
- Be Honest
- Unfaithful
- Thanks
- Brassneck
- Box Elder
- No
- Bewitched
- One Day This Will All Be Yours
- It's Not Unusual
- Crushed
- Brassneck
- Kennedy
- Take Me
Release date: 2001-07-28
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.27
Review Bizarro: Remastered / Wedding Present:
Tracks This Year's Model
- Little Triggers
- Lipstick Vogue
- The Beat
- Less Than Zero
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
- Waiting For The End Of The World - Elvis Costello
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
- You Belong To Me
- The Beat
- Pump It Up
- Living In Paradise
- Little Triggers
- Audience Noise/Applause / Chemistry Class
- Neat Neat Neat
- Big Boys
- Audience Noise/Applause / Miracle Man
- Lipstick Vogue
- No Action
- Roadette Song - Elvis Costello
- Radio, Radio
- Watching The Detectives
- Hand In Hand
- You Belong To Me
- Big Tears
- This Year's Girl - Elvis Costello
- Green Shirt
- Hand In Hand
- Night Rally
- Mystery Dance
- Audience Noise/Applause / Blame It On Cain
- This Year's Girl
- No Action
- Tiny Steps - Elvis Costello
- Running Out Of Angels - Elvis Costello
- Crawling To The USA - Elvis Costello
- Radio, Radio
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
- Lip Service
- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
- Pump It Up
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 131 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.97
Review This Year's Model / Elvis Costello & The Attractions:
Tracks Avalon Sunset
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
- Orangefield
- I'm Tired Joey Boy
- When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
- I'd Love To Write Another Song
- When The Saints (Go Marching In)
- Whenever God Shines His Light - Van Morrison, Cliff Richard
- These Are The Days
- Daring Night
- Contacting My Angel
- Coney Island
- Whenever God Shines His Light - Van Morrison, Cliff Richard
Release date: 2008-01-28
Run time: 51 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.00
Review Avalon Sunset / Van Morrison:
Tracks Jefferson's Tree of Liberty
- Frenario
- Chimes of Freedom
- Imagine Redemption
- Comandante Carlos Fonseca
- In a Crisis
- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
- Genesis Hall
- Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
- Pastures of Plenty
- Cowboy on the Run
- On the Threshold of Fire
- Rising of the Moon
- Maybe for You
- I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
- Santy Anno
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Royal Canal (The Auld Triangle)
- Wasn't That a Time
Release date: 2008-09-29
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.00
Review Jefferson's Tree of Liberty / Jefferson Starship:
Tracks DECEMBERUNDERGROUND
- The Interview
- Affliction
- The Killing Lights
- Intro/Prelude 12/21
- Miss Murder
- Rabbits Are Roadkill On Rt. 37
- Summer Shudder
- Kiss and Control
- Endlessly, She Said
- The Missing Frame
- Love Like Winter
- Head Like A Hole
- Kill Caustic
- 37mm
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review DECEMBERUNDERGROUND / AFI:
Tracks Only by the Night
- Manhattan
- 17
- Revelry
- Cold_desert
- Sex_on_fire
- Closer
- Notion
- I_want_you
- Crawl
- Use_somebody
- Be_somebody
Release date: 2008-09-23
Price: £14.99
Review Only by the Night / Kings of Leon:
Tracks Xanadu: Original Soundtrack
- The Fall
- Dancin'
- Xanadu
- All Over The World
- Suddenly
- Magic
- Suspended In Time
- Don't Walk Away
- Whenever You're Away From Me
- I'm Alive
Release date: 1998-02-23
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.19
Review Xanadu: Original Soundtrack / Olivia Newton-John:
Tracks Greatest Hits : Shining Like A National Guitar
- The boy in the bubble
- You can call me al
- Bernadette
- Trailways bus
- Graceland
- 50 ways to leave your lover
- Hearts and bones
- Late in the evening
- Mother and child reunion
- Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
- The cool cool river
- Loves me like a rock
- Me and julio by the schoolyard
- Slip slidin' away
- The obvious child
- Still crazy after all these years
- Kodachrome
- Take me to the mardi gras
- Rene and georgette magritte with their dog
Release date: 2000-05-15
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.55
Review Greatest Hits : Shining Like A National Guitar / Paul Simon:Nothing he has released since has matched the sales heights of Bridge Over Troubled Water, but the quality of Paul Simon's solo work is undeniable-indeed it could be argued that the songwriter's work post-Simon & Garfunkel has been even more rewarding aesthetically. Shining Like A National Guitar-the fourth compilation to be drawn from Simon's eight solo albums-offers another welcome opportunity to appreciate this extraordinary career arc: tracing Simon's fascinating musical odyssey from Jamaica's "Mother & Child Reunion" and South Africa's "Boy In The Bubble", to Latin America's "The Obvious Child". Along the way, marvel at the articulate precision of Simon's music-"Graceland", "Hearts & Bones", "Still Crazy After All These Years", right up to the recent undervalued album of Capeman. He may not have been particularly prolific, but it's possible to be dazzled afresh by the sheer brilliance of Paul Simon's music. -Patrick Humphries.
Tracks More Songs to Learn and Sing: the Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen
- Stormy Weather
- People Are Strange
- Rust
- Game
- It's Alright
- Seven Seas
- Cutter
- Rescue
- Don't Let It Get You Down
- I Want To Be There (When You Come)
- Stormy Weather
- Killing Moon
- Hang On To A Dream
- Lips Like Sugar
- Back Of Love
- Silver
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Never Stop
- Do It Clean
- Bring On The Dancing Horses
- Promise
Release date: 2006-09-11
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.02
Review More Songs to Learn and Sing: the Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen / Echo & The Bunnymen:
Tracks Tigerlily
- Beloved Wife
- Wonder
- I May Know The Word
- Where I Go
- Cowboy Romance
- River
- Seven Years
- San Andreas Fault
- Letter
- Carnival
- Jealousy
Release date: 1995-06-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.25
Review Tigerlily / Natalie Merchant:Though the minor hits "Wonder" and "Jealousy" bore a reasonable resemblance to Merchant's work with 10,000 Maniacs, most of Tigerlily clearly established her as a solo artist apart from her former band. The record's first single, "Carnival", drove that point home, with a hook based more on rhythm than melody and the haunting voice of Katell Keineg adding an intriguing dimension to the chorus. Elsewhere, much of Tigerlily is remarkably solemn and subtle, from the low-key opener "San Andreas Fault" to the widower's lament "My Beloved Wife" to the eight-minute opus "I May Know the Word". Also of note is "River", an emotional ode to friend and fallen star River Phoenix. -Peter Blackstock.
| Models & Brands:
Funplex, The Pretender, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House [2001], Tea For The Tillerman, Hard Rain, Visionary Position, Hook Me Up, Warning, Almost Unplugged, The Very Best of Meat Loaf, Bizarro: Remastered, This Year's Model, Avalon Sunset, Jefferson's Tree of Liberty, DECEMBERUNDERGROUND, Only by the Night, Xanadu: Original Soundtrack, Greatest Hits : Shining Like A National Guitar, More Songs to Learn and Sing: the Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen, Tigerlily |
